Russian Investigative Committee Chairperson Alexander Bastrykin will stay in his current position for another year, following reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin was considering moving Bastrykin to a new position.

An unknown assailant shot and killed former Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Chairperson Andriy Parubiy in Lviv City on August 30. A Russian servicemember recently murdered an elderly Ukrainian civilian in the Pokrovsk direction.